Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Paisley, Colonel John July 1781
Revwar 
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From The Narrative of David Fanning, introduction and notes by Lindley S. 
Butler, 1981, pages 49-50:

	Following the incident at Cox’s Mill in July 1781-“My men now being 
collected to the amount of 140, who by this time were well armed, and hearing 
nothing further from thence, the next morning marched to the place I had been 
informed they were, but found them gone off. I discovered some of their scouts, 
but firing on them, they took to the woods. I heard they had marched and joined 
another party of 250 men commanded by Colonels Paisley and Balfour, upon which 
I returned to Cox’s Mill. I sent out spies that night, who returned before 
morning and informed me that the two rebel parties had joined, being about 400 
in number and encamped at Brown’s plantation, about two miles up the river on 
the opposite side. I dispatched a flag to them, acquainting them as before, of 
my determination, in support of Government, and proposed a meeting of both 
parties to determine the matter by [force] of arms, at the same time 
acquainting them that the ill treatment of some prisoners they had taken a 
little time before had determined me to retaliate, in case an end was not put 
to it, and any in future have cause to complain.”


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